The Atlantic City Pop Festival took place in 1969 on August 1, 2 and 3rd at the Atlantic City race track, two weeks before the better known Woodstock Festival. The festival is often confused with the Atlanta International Pop Festival (1969), which took place over the 1969 Fourth of July weekend.
Attended by some 100,000+ people the festival featured the following performers (partial list):
o American Dream
o Aum
o Booker T. & The M.G.s
o Tim Buckley
o Paul Butterfield Blues Band
o The Byrds
o Canned Heat
o The Chambers Brothers
o Chicago **Chicago Transit Authority
o Joe Cocker
o The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
o Credence Clearwater Revival
o Dr. John
o Cass Elliot
o Iron Butterfly
o Jefferson Airplane
o Janis Joplin
o Lighthouse
o Little Richard
o Lothar and the Hand People
o Hugh Masekela
o Buddy Miles
o Joni Mitchell
o Mother Earth
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